State police looking for missing Skippack college student

By 21st Century Media News Service

Monday, May 20, 2013

SKIPPACK — Pennsylvania State Police out of Skippack as well as the Narragansett, R.I., Police are coordinating in the effort to locate a local college student who is missing after leaving the University of Rhode Island for his Skippack home.

Matthew R. Royer, 21, reportedly left his apartment on campus around 5:50 p.m. to return to his home with a Collegeville mailing address.

According to police, he has not been seen or heard from since.

Police said he is a white male with brown hair, blue eyes, standing six feet, one inch tall and weighing 160 pounds.

He was driving a silver 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt with a Pennsylvanaia license plate reading “GZR9059.”

Janet Royer, Matthew’s mother, told NBC10 it is totally out of character for her son to suddenly vanish especially since he was scheduled to work at Skippack Golf Club this weekend.

“He’s not a child. He wouldn’t tell me he’s doing something and then not come home, he’s responsible 21-year-old,” said Royer.

Royer says the last time she heard from her son was through a text message Thursday night informing her that he was leaving campus to begin the 6-hour drive home.

“He car would be stuffed with dirty laundry, full of stuff...he was coming home,” said Royer.

Royer believes that Matthew made it to the Allentown area where police traced his last cell phone ping around 1:58 a.m. on Friday. Royer also tells NBC 10 her husband saw surveillance video of Matthew buying gas and water at a Sunoco along Route 100.

“It’s a nightmare it’s a bad movie,” said Royer. “I can’t believe it’s happening to me. He was coming home from college to start the summer.”

Family members and neighbors passed out flyers Sunday in an effort to find the missing college student.

Anyone with information related to the disappearance is asked to contact the state police at Skippack at 610-584-1250.